Tag Archives: Lightning Tools

Automating Your Work with Microsoft Flow

Next week, on March 16th, 2017, we have a webinar coming up!  I’ve partnered up with Lightning Tools, and will be presenting “Automating Your Work with Microsoft Flow”. Have you been using SharePoint workflows, and now you are wondering what to think about Microsoft Flow? This session covers the creation of flows in Office 365, with specific examples of integration

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Trying the Data Viewer Web Part -Lightning Tools

This blog post is a product review.  I’m trying out the Data Viewer Web Part by a company called Lightning Tools.  When I came to the realization that the design view is no longer in SharePoint Designer (in 2013), and it isn’t coming back, like many of you I was upset and frustrated.  Fortunately, the great developers at Lightning Tools

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Exploring the Out of the Box Web Parts for SharePoint 2010

On May 11th, I presented this webcast with the great people at Lightning Tools! Here is the link to the page of all of their webcasts. Here is the link directly to the webcast called: Exploring the Out of Box Web Parts for SharePoint 2010  

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SharePoint Saturday Houston–5/7

SharePoint Saturday is Houston is coming up very soon, and I can’t wait!  This weekend, on May 7th, I’ll be speaking at this event, and there will be so many other great speakers that I can’t wait to see again. Here are the details about my session, along with a quick link to add it to your own Outlook calendar:

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The Largest SharePoint Conference in Europe!

Yes, I’ll be in London this April, and no it won’t be for the royal wedding.  I’ll be speaking at the European Best Practices Conference April 11-13, 2011: Big thanks to Lightning Tools, because they have set up a book signing for me in their booth at the conference!  We’ll be giving away free books, signed by me!  My book

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External Content Types – SQL Auth, NO Kerberos

It’s so easy, even I can do it!  In SharePoint 2010, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is what used to be the BDC in SharePoint 2007.  With the BCS, you create External Content Types (ECT) that let you define a connection to a database or web service that is external to SharePoint. The actual steps of the creation of the External

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